My Dear Nelly: The Selected Civil War Letters of General Orlando M. Poe to His Wife Eleanor (Paul Taylor - DLM) postcard the bloody fight at Germantown

the bloody fight at Germantown proved that Continental soldiers could stand toe-to-toe with British Regulars

how and by whom one of the greatest battlefields in the world was documented when the field still looked essentially as it did at the time of the battle

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The 30th North Carolina Infantry was involved in most of the major battles in Virginia from the Seven Days through the surrender at Appomattox

My Dear Nelly: The Selected Civil War Letters of General Orlando M. Poe to His Wife Eleanor (Paul Taylor - DLM) postcard the bloody fight at Germantownby Paul Taylor (Editor), Earl J. Hess (Foreword) More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, West Point engineer and Brevet Brigadier General Orlando M. Poe (18321895) remains one of the Unions most unsung heroes. He served the Union in uniform from day one of the conflict until the Confederate surrender in North Carolina in late April 1865, and he used his unparalleled ability to predict Confederate movements to lead multiple successful